/sci/ - Science & Math

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I'm glad I left physics - let me tell why

"You will never be as smart as Nima Arkani

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Dj8fq30sk

You're barely able to understand the basics of theory and you would take a whole life to get a single insight of the kind this guy gets in a day (apparently)"

Guys like him and Ed Witten are almost like different species from the rest of humans.

Seriously guys. Physics is for 1 rank minds. Its the hardest mental activity ever invented. Don't dare to dream to be a decent physicist, you may be in trouble if you try.

Hey /sci/ newfag here.
>Planning on becoming a physicist/mathematician.
>Classes too easy.
>Classmates all retarded and complaining.
>Bored as hell and have nothign to do.
>Classical Bullshit Boring
>Quantum physics Boring
>Electromagnetism Boring


Tl;DR: Are there any top secret jobs for the exceptionally intelligent. Preferably physics/math/engineering based?


>inb4 "NSA"

Has anyone tried to understand the amplituhedron?

If you could sum the challenge of life into one business term and then propose a solution to sucess with one mathematical term. What would they be?

Mine would be:
Business Term: "Competition"
Mathematical Term: "Optimization"

Think about it...

Can someone explain this to me, and why it is such a big deal, like I am a 5th grader?

>>6053312
pft. Just do the same thing we did with everything else. Do enough samples, work out a formula. Make a pretty picture of the formula. Voila, all possible senses mapped out.

What it's like to be an *everything*.

Then that just leaves the whole why am I me/where is consciousness after death bit. Which I think might have a chance of being discovered once you have enough experience with all the other shit.

we geometry now

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/